Inhaled corticosteroids raise pneumonia risk for lung disease sufferers

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 03:56 in Health & Medicine

Lung disease experts at Johns Hopkins are calling for physicians to show much greater caution in prescribing inhaled corticosteroid drugs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after finding evidence that the widely used anti-inflammatory medications increase the risk of pneumonia by a full third...

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